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Chapter 3: BIOS setup

While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The 

SATA Port items show Not Present if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding SATA 

port.
Scroll down to display the other BIOS items.

Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled] 

Disables the SATA function.

[IDE] 

Set to [IDE Mode] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as 

Parallel ATA physical storage devices.

[AHCI] 

Set to [AHCI Mode] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to use the 

AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface). The AHCI allows the onboard 

storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases 

storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to 

internally optimize the order of commands.

[RAID] 

Set to [RAID Mode] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the 

SATA hard disk drives.